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BBC: Thousands laid off in California ( Arnold does it to State Workers )
BBC ^ | Friday, 1 August 2008 01:33 UK 00:33 GMT | BBC Staff

Posted on 07/31/2008 8:12:21 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
What the hell is the point?

This is just another stupid stunt that does nothing to solve the SPENDING problem.

A draft order states that pay would be cut for about 200,000 state workers to the federal hourly minimum wage of $6.55 until a budget is signed.

After the budget is signed, workers would receive their full pay for all the time they worked at the minimum wage.

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21 posted on 07/31/2008 8:34:10 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The criminal part is that as soon as there a new budget they get all their back pay.

They should lose it all!!!


22 posted on 07/31/2008 8:34:58 PM PDT by dalereed (both)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Jack OConnell Superintendent of Public Instruction is not going to implement Arnold’s order either. Says no retired annuitants or student assistants need not worry about losing their job either.


23 posted on 07/31/2008 8:36:45 PM PDT by notaliberal (Christ Our Hope!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Let’s do a lot more cutting especially the federal government.


24 posted on 07/31/2008 8:37:16 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: OKIEDOC

Doubt it? I am thinking he is an elected official.


25 posted on 07/31/2008 8:38:39 PM PDT by Buddy B (MSgt Retired-USAF)
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To: Saundra Duffy

I would believe him to be sincere if he cut his pay to min wage. This was only for show.


26 posted on 07/31/2008 8:44:20 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Grampa Dave
"now comes the attack on Prop 13...."

Oh! You are SO RIGHT!!!

27 posted on 07/31/2008 8:51:16 PM PDT by SierraWasp (I'm not against the environment, just GovernMental EnvironMentalism!!! (our new state religion))
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To: o_zarkman44
Californians recalled their former coin-operated governor Gray Davis who served up whatever the tax-consuming unions demanded. Schwarzenegger campaigned as a fiscal conservative, but forsook that concept once the teachers' union and other public employee unions started pounding him into submission. The California taxpayers are getting crushed in this Democrat-run state.
28 posted on 07/31/2008 8:54:08 PM PDT by ucsd1974 (Power to the people!)
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To: Orange1998

I dont think he even receives a paycheck.


29 posted on 07/31/2008 9:01:19 PM PDT by douginthearmy
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To: Orange1998
Schwarzenegger takes $1 a year salary. He is cover on this one./p>
30 posted on 07/31/2008 9:01:19 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina.***)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Damn... is he getting ready to run for president somehow?
31 posted on 07/31/2008 9:05:14 PM PDT by Porterville (would you rather live in today's britain or yesterday's CCCP?)
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To: Orange1998
I would believe him to be sincere if he cut his pay to min wage. This was only for show.

Arnold collects zero salary.

32 posted on 07/31/2008 9:07:43 PM PDT by MistrX
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

And the chickens come home to roost.


33 posted on 07/31/2008 9:12:49 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Quick justice for the senseless killing of Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
...now comes the attack on Prop 13....

I know the politicians in Sacramento drool over this prospect -- but I don't know if they really need to do this. They've run an effective 'end around' over the past few years by coming up with new 'fees' for almost anything... Who needs to raise taxes when you can implement/raise fees by fiat.

In addition, I believe Sacramento really wants the gasoline prices to continue to increase. This spike over the past two years has been an unexpected for those folks in the Capitol who couldn't balance a budget if their lives dependent on it. Because the gas tax includes a sales tax that is a percentage of the gasoline price per gallon - Sacramento has gotten a good boost to their revenue. They'll block off-shore drilling, or anything, that might drive the gas prices down...

Good thing that we're not relying on the temporal - because I don't see digging out of this financial hole with the leaders we have (and given that 'we've' voted them in -- we get what we deserve)...

34 posted on 07/31/2008 9:12:56 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Bernard
Here's another hunk of Ca. taxpayers $$ wasted.

California gives go-ahead to stem-cell research Proposition 71 provides $3 billion in state funding over next decade......from 2004

35 posted on 07/31/2008 9:13:05 PM PDT by tflabo (Al)
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To: SierraWasp

25 of the 32,279 proposed “cuts” were to the Sierra Nevada Conservancy (and 61 to the Coastal Commission).

Pretty disgusting that they *have* 25 employees, IMO.


36 posted on 07/31/2008 9:17:09 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl

If the legislature democrats would put down the crack pipe and start working for the peoel insead of trying to figure out ways to fleece the people, or to screw the population out of every civil right they have. But instead this bunch of braindead wates of oxygen want to teach communism in the schools. They want the students to knwo state is mother and state is father. When the people do not need the state at all.

The whole bunch (the entire state government, every last state government employee, including teachers, professors and secratarys and everyother position.)should be thrown out and sent to Siberia.

I’m being nice today. LOL


37 posted on 07/31/2008 9:26:41 PM PDT by longun45 (There is no difference between a republocrat and a demican, time to kick them both out.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I smell a Federal bailout coming!

Pelosi will easily make this happen if Obama wins, or will swap it for offshore drilling if McCain wins.

That's why the CA Rats are doing nothing to resolve this. The fix is in!

38 posted on 07/31/2008 9:28:17 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
What he should have done in 2004.
39 posted on 07/31/2008 9:29:13 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (There are people in power with desire for evil.)
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To: El Cid
Re: 34

I checked the sales tax on Gas, and California's gasoline consumption, and came up with ~$2 billion windfall to California's revenue due to the $2/gallon spike we've seen since the Dems took control of Congress:

With a 6% Sales Tax + a 1.25% County Tax (or a cumulative 7.25% tax that stays within the state) on gasoline sales - California is raking in the dough with this $2/gallon spike that's occurred since the Dems took control of Congress. In 2007 California consumed 15.7 billion gallons of gasoline, so we're talking an added ~ $2 billion boon (7.25% x $2/gallon x 15.7 billion gallons) to Sacramento's budget - that the Dems probably didn't anticipate.

40 posted on 07/31/2008 9:30:20 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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